Insanity Prelude: Cracked had a shot at this:
7 Most Terrifying Disney Movie Deaths
Lale: Is it just me, or has most of the stuff that made this page fun been arbitrarily removed? If this isn't for sharing stories, what's it for? Finding documented examples of things that unintentionally caused mass nightmares?
There Is No Such Thing As Notability!
Some Sort Of Troper: Notability. That word. I do not think it means what you think it means. This is not just for sharing stories. It's a trope page, it is for finding examples of works that unintentionally caused mass nightmares amongst children. If a trope and it's examples aren't fun for you, are you sure you're in the right place?
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Some Sort Of Troper: Clean up of
Nightmare Fuel, currently ongoing (cf
discussion) The page says and has always said it has to be unintentional and to be targetted to kids. The use of the trope namer was to emphasise that point.
This trope is named after the phrase "Good Old-Fashioned Nightmare Fuel", used by Mike and the 'bots at least three times in Mystery Science Theater 3000 to describe trauma-inducing sights and objects in films that appeared by design to be originally intended for children.
Three criteria:
- For kids
- unintentional
- gives nightmares
That's not a lot of criteria for a trope, they're simple and if people want their "crowning moment of scary"-ish page that's what the
High Octane Nightmare Fuel was made for.
dmysta3000: I just added a new image, It's from the Mickey Cartoon
Runaway Brain, I think it's rather fitting. Anyone else agree?
Pro-Mole: Love it. Just what I needed to haunt my dreams tonight.
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Were Josh Peck Prince)): I think it's cool. Mickey looks really evil and kind of monsterish in a way- like he's some sort of weremouse.
Some Sort Of Troper: Definate were-mouse (well, mouse-wolf, actually) vibe... gives me an idea for a caption that fits the trope better... give me a mo.
Some Sort Of Troper: So I removed the following because firstly, it's written in a very personally intrusive manner that's not very helpful. Also it seems to be making the right point in some places while getting it wrong in others. So this:
- The new A Christmas Carol. Oh my god, friggin' film should be retitled "A Ghost Carol!" The Future Ghost is the least scariest, though partly because you know he's going to be scary (As if ANYONE has managed to escape one of the TRILLION adaptions Carol has), but the other two ghosts... Past has a really creepy voice, I mean REALLY CREEPY. The kind that you imagine the Man Next Door has that mommy told you to stay away from. His head is on fire, which is unsettling realistic. And his face KEEPS CHANGING TO PEOPLE Scrooge knew, whether they're DEAD OR NOT. Scrooge smothering the little sucker was a Crowning Moment Of Awesome. And the Ghost of Christmas Present... It's hard not to find him a bigger Jerk Ass then Scrooge, he takes "teach Scrooge a lesson" a little to far and almost makes him border on Woobie. There's the above mention death scene, when you see him age from Brian Blessed-esque figure to a dude older than Father Time, clutching at his chest as he has a heart attack, then his skin dissolves, the dude's literally dust in the wind but you see his skeleton is left behind and it's LAUGHING with eyes in his sockets still and it's creepy. Then there are his little wards Ignorance and Want, who are brutal, BRUTAL subversions of Children Are Innocent. And special mention goes to Marley, who's jaw UNHINGES as he's talking to Scrooge, which removed all doubt in This Troper's mind this was going to be a campy adaption for the family from Disney. Oh no no no...
can remain here until someone who can tell what it means and has seen the work can whittle it down to the right points. Want and Ignorance and Jacob Marley and arguably the other ghosts too to some degree were always meant to be unsettling and creepy if not as truly scary as the third ghost.
